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Many states, cities
in a pinch for money
By DONALD E. MULLEN
United Press International
If these places were people they’d be
ducking the landlord and wearing hand*
me-down clothes: New York City, Boston,
St. Louis and Los Angeles, and Georgia,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois,
Connecticut and Massachusetts.
They are only a few of the U.S. cities and
states with money problems.
“This is the worst fiscal crisis in the
state’s history,” said Gov. Michael
Dukakis of Massachusetts, which has a S6O
million deficit and a 12.6 per cent
unemployment rate.
“We have reached the bottom,” said
Sam Caldwell, Georgia’s labor
commissioner. “It is a mushy bottom and
we are wobbling along it, but there are a
few indications we are beginning to climb
back out.”
Caldwell’s outlook on Georgia’s
economic situation —a bare-bones budget
and an unerpployment rate of 9.6 per cent
— matches many other states and cities
trying to claw their way out of the
recession.
Assassination
retaliation
from Cuba?
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
assassination of President John Kennedy
may have been an act of retaliation
against attempts on the life of Cuban
premier Fidel Castro, says Sen. Richard
Schweiker, R-Pa.
Schweiker, a member of the Senate
committee investigating U.S. intelligence
activities, said Sunday “one of the
spinoffs’’ of the investigation could be a re
opening of the Kennedy assassination
probe.
Richard Goodwin, a former Kennedy
White House aide, meanwhile was quoted
today as saying Kennedy told him in
November, 1961, “If we get into that sort of
thing (assassinations of foreign leaders),
we’ll all be targets.”
In an interview with the Washington
Post, Goodwin said Kennedy meant chiefs
of state such as himself might be the
subject of assassination attempts.
Ford plans
Helsinki visit
WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford
will go to Helsinki at the end of this month
to join a European security conference
with 34 other world leaders who will sign a
treaty designed to improve East-West
relations.
Administration officials also say Ford
plans to visit West Germany, Poland,
Romania and Yugoslavia this month. He
will be in Helsinki July 30 and Aug. 1 for
the largest summit meeting ever attended
by an American president.
He is expected to leave Saturday for his
second trip to Europe in two months and
return about 10 days later.
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ATLANTA—Susan Johnson, Western Electric employee, should have little trouble with the
metric system if the United States adopts the system. Susan commutes 58 kilometers a day
from her home in Woodstock to the Western Electric southern region headquarters in Sandy
Springs Western Electric is gradually introducing its employees into the system. (UPI)
New York City is just about broke.
Thousands of public workers, including
police, firemen and garbagemen, have
been fired as the city stuggles to balance
its sl2 billion budget, the third largest in
the Western Hemisphere.
Except for a few bright spots across the
United States, the combination of inflation
and recession still haunts government
officials.
The key word is income. With lags in
industry and millions out of work, states
and cities are trying to fight inflation by
using up available money, cut back basic
services and fire public employes.
Some states haven’t hit the bottom yet.
New York Gov. Hugh Carey and state
legislators are battling over new taxes.
Carey claims the state faces a S6OO million
deficit by the end of the current fiscal
year.
Texas is one exception to the cities and
states headed for the poorhouse. The Lone
Star State has a healthy surplus because of
tax income from oil and gas. Houston
follows Texas’ good fortune, with a $12.5
million surplus from last year.
Son, daughter die as sea strikes
Key West, Fla. (UPI) - “It’s a
powerful ocean,” said Mel Fisher as he
stared blankly across the sun-shimmered
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. “It takes
people and ships.”
In the 17th century, the ocean took to its
bottom a Spanish treasure ship, the
“Nuestra Senora de Atocha.” Last week
Fisher, head of Treasure Salvors Inc.,
triumphantly announced his team had
discovered the Atocha and its valuable
cargo.
Sunday, triumph turned to tragedy. The
sea struck back and claimed Fisher’s son,
a daughter-in-law and one of his divers.
They died when the firm’s converted 60-
foot tugboat, the “Northwind,” capsized
and sank in predawn darkness while its
crew of 11 slept.
Dirk Fisher, 21, the skipper of the boat,
his wife, Angel, 25, and Rick Gage, 21, a
diver for Treasure Salvors, were trapped
below deck and drowned.
“It’s an unfortunate accident —a
. . . .tragedy,” Fisher, 52, said in a
barely audible voice. “I’m just very sad.”
The accident came one week after the
Iran drops plan to aid airline
TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) — The Iranian
government has decided to drop plans for
a S3OO million financial aid package to help
troubled Pan American World Airways.
Informed government sources said
Sunday Iran rejected the aid proposal
because of the poor financial condition of
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discovery of bronze cannon and other
artifacts from the Atocha, a galleon which
sank in a 1622 hurricane. The firm said the
vessel had about SIOO million in gold and
silver aboard.
Survivors said a bilge pump or hose
apparently broke after they had retired
Saturday night and one side of the
Northwind’s steel hull silently filled with
water as it lay at anchor about 40 miles
west of here.
Don Kincaid, 29, the expedition’s
underwater photographer, said he was
sleeping on the upper deck. He awoke
suddenly.
“I’ve been at sea so long I just knew
something was wrong,” Kincaid said. “I
went downstairs to the engine room and
found water up to my knees.”
Kincaid said Donnie Jonas, the ship’s
chief engineer, joined him in the engine
room. They tried unsuccessfully to move
machinery to the other side of the vessel to
offset the tilt caused by the water.
Minutes later the boat tipped over.
Kincaid said he grabbed a life raft and
then “started seeing heads pop up.”
“We are virtually recession proof
because Houston is still booming and
because it has a diverse economy,” said
Mayor Fred Hofheinz. “We didn’t put all
our eggs in one basket.”
David Liederman, chief secretary to
Massachusetts Gov. Dukakis, said,
“We’ve got the worst of both worlds ... a
declining economy and the need for new
taxes. Now we have to cut state services
just when they are needed the most.”
Boston, operating on an austerity
program for the past three years, has an
employment rate of between 9 and 10 per
cent.
“There’s not much chance of our being
able to solve our own problem,” said
Budget Director Richard E. Wall. “If the
economy improves greatly we’re still
going to need federal help.”
Michigan also is in the midst of a fiscal
crisis brought about by sagging revenues
and rapidly increasing welfare and
unemployment lines. Both are the result of
the automobile industry slump Jobless
figures show a record number out of work
— 15.1 per cent — and as high as 25 per
cent in Detroit.
the airline, which lost more than SBO
million last year.
The sources also cited oil-rich Iran’s
pressing economic needs at home and its
desire to implement previous international
commitments before entering into new
ones.
The decision, which was apparently
Teresa ends leukemia fight
CHICAGO (UPI)— Nineteen-year-old
Teresa Sadauskas opened her eyes, drew a
deep breath and died, her year-long fight
against leukemia ended.
She had known for some time death
would come soon. But still she fought,
living days longer than her doctors had
given her.
“Just about everybody was here,” Alice,
her 29-year-old sister, said minutes after
Teresa’s death Sunday night. “We knew
since last night that it was a matter of just
any minute and any hour.
“But we proved the doctors wrong for
that many days,” she said. “At least she
was home where she wanted to be.”
Alice said her parents, four sisters and
Teresa’s twin, Ted, were “holding their
own. Even the little one (5-year-old Sonia)
knows what’s happened.
Greek-Americans want aid to Turkey to stop
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Thousands of
Greek-Americans, rallying on the Capitol
steps Sunday, urged congressmen to vote
this week against resumption of U.S. arm
shipments to Turkey.
They cheered and waved flags and signs
as a message from Archbishop Makarios,
the Cypriot leader, was read to them —
warning that “resumption of American
Jonas was trapped for eight minutes in
the flooded engine room but found an air
pocket, located a flashlight, and found a
way out.
Gage’s roommate, Jim Solanick,
escaped through a porthole but the rushing
water overpowered Gage before he could
make it. Dirk Fisher’s 16-year-old brother,
Kane, and Keith Curry, 12-year-old
brother of Angel Fisher, also made it to the
raft.
About 2% hours later, the crew of
another boat anchored nearby discovered
the Northwind was missing.
“They thought at first that it had sailed
back from the night anchorage to the
salvage site," said Bleth McHaley, vice
president of Treasure Salvors. “Then they
saw the survivors in life jackets and on
rafts in the water.”
Divers aboard the “Virga Lona,” a boat
in the Treasure Salvors fleet, rescued the
survivors—and retrieved the bodies of the
dead.
The search for the treasure was
suspended temporarily, but Fisher said it
will resume.
final, climaxed 10 months of financial talks
between the Iranian government and
officials of the American airline.
The sources said there is “no possibility
for Iran to make the loan to Pan Am,”
which has lost nearly S6O million during
the first quarter of 1975.
“She opened her eyes, took a deep
breath and then she died,” Alice said,
choking on the last word.
Teresa lapsed into a coma Saturday
night, lying in bed in her brightly painted
lavender room just off the kitchen of the
two-story duplex.
Her thinning, receding hair was pulled
back from her forehead and the blotches
on her body stood out against the paleness
of her skin.
Her mother, Janina, a strongwilled Pole,
bent over her sometimes, trying to pick up
the words Teresa mumbled in a
combination of Polish and English. Many
of the words were indistinguishable from
the soft moans of pain.
Several months ago, she was taken to a
Baltimore, Md., hospital for treatment,
including a marrow transplant from her
arms to Turkey would be disastrous to
peace in our region.”
In a telegram read to the rally marking
the first anniversary of the Turkish
invasion of Cyprus, Makarios said Presi
dent Ford’s proposed renewal of arms
sales would deepen the Cypriot crisis and
threaten stability of the Mediterranean
area.
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Junior Miss hand walker
CHICAGO — A shocking stroller is Julie Forshee, 17, America’s Junior Miss from Fayette
ville, Ark., who rested her feet and walked on her hands Sunday as she began a sightseeing
tour of Chicago. Julie, an accomplished gymnast and tumbler startled passers-by by her
antics along Michigan Boulevard. She visited the city as part of her summer tour. (UPI)
Ford, congress
are at it again
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Congress and
President Ford are at loggerheads again
over energy. The result could be whopping
gasoline price increases by Labor Day.
Ford today will veto legislation that
would extend controls on the price of “old”
oil through this year and roll back the
price of “new” oil to $11.28 a barrel, about
$2 under the current price.
For its part, Congress is expected
Tuesday to disapprove Ford’s proposed
gradual decontrol of “old” oil over 30
months, a move the administration says
eventually would raise gasoline prices
seven cents a gallon. Other experts
contend the increase could be as high as 11
cents.
In addition to vetoing the latest
decontrol bill, Ford is ready to veto
another bill in the works that would simply
extend controls on “old” oil another six
months so Congress can take its August
vacation and then deal with its own energy
program.
The current controls on “old” oil, which
accounts for about 60 per cent of U.S.
production, expire Aug. 31. Oil companies
then would be free to charge whatever the
market would bear.
“Old” oil is that produced from wells in
operation before 1973, and “new” oil is that
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14-year-old sister Helen, which failed.
Tuesday, Teresa left the hospital after
pleading with her father to take her home
to die.
“She would say ‘Take me home,
Daddy,”’ Sadauskas said Saturday.
Her father, Edward, a fiercely loyal
Lithuanian, said in heavily accented
English the family first noticed something
was wrong with Renia (Polish for Teresa)
last year in May when she complained of
dizziness. Weeks later she was told she had
leukemia, a disease of the blood-forming
organs.
“If it had happened to me, I wouldn’t be
so bothered — but to her ... ” Sadauskas
said, shaking his head.
“I was optimistic up to the last — to the
last day I don’t quit,” Mrs. Sadauskas
said. “She told me ‘I know I go to
heaven’.”
agent?” one sign carried by
demonstrators said. Others were critical
of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Police estimated 4,000 persons were at the
rally.
Congress, angered that American
supplied weapons were used in the
invasion of Cyprus, imposed a ban on arms
aid to Turkey Feb. 5 until the Cyprus crisis
could be resolved.
either produced from newer wells or the
amount produced from old wells over 1972
levels. “Old” oil is now controlled at $5.25
a barrel and “new” oil is not controlled at
all.
White House press secretary Ron
Nessen said Ford reached his veto decision
at a Saturday morning meeting with his
energy advisers.
“The President believes strongly that
this piece of legislation is unacceptable,”
Nessen said.
He said Ford would prefer Congress
instead approve his proposal for
decontrolling domestic prices gradually,
but, “realistically speaking...the outlook is
not good” for approval of Ford’s plan.
Nessen said that if Ford’s plan is killed,
“the next step as we see it would be for
Congress to pass a simple six-month
extension of the present controls.” In that
case, he said, Ford “will veto the simple
sixmonth bill.”
That would leave the current law
controlling “old” oil prices free to expire
Aug. 31 and create a possible consumer
price explosion.
Nessen said he had no figures on the
effect of immediate decontrol of gasoline
prices.